Tunable intense Airy beams and tailored femtosecond laser filaments

Papazoglou, D. G.; Suntsov, Sergiy; Abdollahpour, Daryoush; Tzortzakis, S.

doi:10.1103/physreva.81.061807

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“…We therefore aim to use only the components present in a standard light-sheet microscope setup. Typically the misalignment of optical elements is avoided as it induces optical aberrations that degrade image quality and reduce efficiency; however, as we demonstrate here, controlled tilting of the cylindrical lens can induce aberrations that closely approximate the cubic modulation required for Airy light sheet microscopy [14].…”

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“…A one-dimensional Airy beam may be generated using a combination of two carefully misaligned cylindrical lenses that induce coma aberration with a cubic phase profile across the beam [14]. The Seidel aberration in a single spherical lens takes the form…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Unfortunately, quadratic-and higher-order terms are produced along with the cubic term. In the two-cylindrical-lens optical system in [14], one lens creates a high-order one-dimensional (1D) polynomial phase profile and the other lens creates a phase profile that minimizes all but the third-order terms, making the cubic phase profile dominant. The output of this two-lens arrangement is a collimated beam with 1D cubic phase modulation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…1). The spherical re-collimating lens (L2) performs the role of the aberration compensating cylindrical lens (as used in [14]), as well as that of the additional cylindrical lens required for light sheet formation. The first order term in the aberration is absent when tilting the cylindrical lens around the center of its convex front surface; however, a lateral displacement of the optical axis cannot be avoided.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A compact Airy beam light sheet microscope with a tilted cylindrical lens

Yang¹,

Prokopas²,

Nylk³

et al. 2014

Biomed. Opt. Express

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Light-sheet imaging is rapidly gaining importance for imaging intact biological specimens. Many of the latest innovations rely on the propagation-invariant Bessel or Airy beams to form an extended light sheet to provide high resolution across a large field of view. Shaping light to realize propagation-invariant beams often relies on complex programming of spatial light modulators or specialized, custom made, optical elements. Here we present a straightforward and low-cost modification to the traditional light-sheet setup, based on the open-access light-sheet microscope OpenSPIM, to achieve Airy light-sheet illumination. This brings wide field single-photon light-sheet imaging to a broader range of endusers. Fluorescent microspheres embedded in agarose and a zebrafish larva were imaged to demonstrate how such a microscope can have a minimal footprint and cost without compromising on imaging quality.

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Section: Theoretical Concepts and Performancementioning

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Section: Theoretical Concepts and Performancementioning

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confidence: 99%

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A compact Airy beam light sheet microscope with a tilted cylindrical lens

Yang¹,

Prokopas²,

Nylk³

et al. 2014

Biomed. Opt. Express

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“…The use of ultraintense Airy beams curved plasma channels and self-bending, filamentation, and femtosecond laser pulses, and their features were described [27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. Moreover, the behavior of tailored-beam ultrashort laser beams and the fact that these waves can bend in various ways were also stated [34].…”

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Semiconductor laser beam bending

Yıldırım¹,

Çelebi²

2015

Turk J Elec Eng & Comp Sci

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Abstract:This study is about a single-component cylindrical structured lens with a gradient curve that was used for bending laser beams. It operates under atmospheric conditions and bends the laser beam independently of temperature, pressure, polarity, polarization, magnetic field, electric field, radioactivity, and gravity. A single-piece cylindrical lens that can bend laser beams was developed. Lenses are made of transparent, tinted, or colored glass and are used to undermine or absorb the energy of laser beams. This study is not a work of a plasma filamentation, nor is related to a self-accelerating wave packet. Rather, it focuses on bending the laser beam as required. The dimensions of the light-bending curvatures vary depending on the source and the lens. This is an application of laser beam bending. The dimensions of the captured images are 500 × 700 mm.

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Compact Generation of Airy Beams with C‐Aperture Metasurface

Song

Lee

Park

et al. 2017

Advanced Optical Materials

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A novel method to launch finite power Airy beams based on a metasurface is presented. By tailoring the amplitude and phase of the transmitted fields from a metallic C‐aperture array, launching Airy beams is achieved in free space. The amplitude and phase of the Airy beam profile can be mapped and tailored by tuning only the tilt angles of the aperture. This structure has multifrequency characteristics, which facilitates Airy beam steering because the trajectory of Airy beams is dependent on the wavelength. In addition, the design method can generate Airy beams which have a very compact main lobe (≈2 µm). Computational and experimental results show that proposed metasurface can overcome some limitations of the traditional methods to generate Airy beams. The results can be used for potential applications in integrated optics, beam shaping, biosensing, and next‐generation holography.

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Tunable intense Airy beams and tailored femtosecond laser filaments

Cited by 83 publications

References 13 publications

A compact Airy beam light sheet microscope with a tilted cylindrical lens

A compact Airy beam light sheet microscope with a tilted cylindrical lens

Semiconductor laser beam bending

Compact Generation of Airy Beams with C‐Aperture Metasurface

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